02/09/2014

The Dead Beat is a coming of age story for the slacker generation — surely, this being what some might label as Slacker Fiction—those who find themselves between great swathes of adulthood (school and careers, namely), unstuck in time with nothing but (little) money to burn and carnal instincts to explore. It sheds light on a…

01/31/2013

Let me start out by saying this isn’t your typical review. The book I’m talking about, This Jealous Earth: Stories, by Scott Dominic Carpenter, is one I’m publishing through my own press. So rather than a review, consider this a discussion of said press (MG Press), our mission and how I ended up where I…

02/03/2012

Laura, by Sarah E Melville, is, by all practical accounts, a work of genius. A portmanteau of Stoker’s Dracula and Melville’s own vivid creativity, the text deftly weaves between that of our troubled, Dracula-obsessed narrator Simon and his experiences in a hospital / asylum and Stoker’s own grand, macabre text. Like the narration, the story…